Wikitravel:List of related projects

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This is just an alphabetical list, with some commentary, of some other projects featuring user-generated content compatible with our own license, which are related to Wikitravel in terms of cross-content cooperation.

Great and fast growing hospitality exchange network - built in the same spirit of sharing and helping as Wikitravel. CouchSurfing helps you make connections worldwide. You can use the network to meet people and then go and surf other members' couches! It also has a free wiki.

The Hitchwiki is a collaborative project to build a free guide for hitchhikers. It's a compilation of tips about good spots to hitchhike, info about hitchhiking in different countries, general know how about what to pack and when to go, what to eat and how to stay safe.

A project to create a free encyclopedia. It was one of the models that Wikitravel was based on, and we use the software (MediaWiki) developed for Wikipedia. We link to Wikipedia, they link to us, and we often share content between the two, as our licenses are fully compatible. We are still awaiting explicit policy clarifications from IBadmins now that they have forked our content and started their own travel guide.

A wiki-based Open Content travel guide, not coincidentally, the site was purchased by Internet Brands at the same time as Wikitravel, making it a "sister site". It's a merger of the www.CapitanCook.com project with the previously proprietary World66 site. The content is under the same license that we use (but was previously GFDL), so content sharing is an option; interlinking between the two is encouraged. Their main page says they have over 10,000 articles available, but many of their articles are at a finer level of granularity than on Wikitravel - individual attractions have articles, for example.